SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1129
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR JOHNSON.
Read 1st time February 11, 2002, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
4507S.02I
AN ACT
To repeal section 67.669, RSMo, relating to economic development, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 67.669, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 67.669, to read as follows:
67.669. 1. Any county of the first classification without a charter form of government and with a population of more than [fifty-seven thousand] seventy-three thousand seven hundred inhabitants but less than [sixty thousand] seventy-three thousand eight hundred inhabitants may, by ordinance or order of the governing body of the county and approved by the majority of the qualified voters of the county, require each contract covering the rental of a motor vehicle which is rented within such county on a short-term basis [to provide a box which the renter may use to indicate that a one dollar fee may be added to the contract] to provide for a fifty-cent fee. For purposes of this section "short-term" shall mean a rental contract of less than one month. The fee shall be collected by any business located in such county which rents motor vehicles on a short-term basis upon payment of the contract by the customer.
2. The county collector of such county may provide for collection of such fee on forms provided by the county collector. Failure to collect and remit such fees by any business located in such county which rents motor vehicles on a short-term basis shall be subject to a penalty of five percent per month together with interest as determined by section 32.065, RSMo.
3. All revenues collected from the imposition of the fee as authorized by this section shall be used solely for [tourism purposes] economic development within such county.